Category: Politics

Former football star George Weah and Vice-President Joseph Boakai are headed for a run-off in Liberia’s presidential election. Nearly all the results from Tuesday’s poll have been counted, the election commission says. Mr Weah, the first African to win the Ballon D’Or football award, is leading with 39%, while Mr Boakai is in second place with 29%. A […]

Former moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana Rev. Professor Emmanuel Martey has expressed great disappointment in the President and his style of leadership as according to him, government has been less responsive to recent corruption scandals in the country. Prof. Martey asked President Nana Addo Akufo-Addo to make a statement on the recent corruption incidents that have taken […]

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has assured food crop farmers, fish farmers and livestock farmers that they will all have the support and respect they deserve from his government. According to Akufo-Addo, “if we are to make any meaningful change in the lives of people, our efforts must be directed at agriculture. The majority of people can only feel […]

A former Minister for Environment, Science and Technology, Mahama Ayariga has challenged cabinet’s directive ordering the immediate cessation of the construction of new gas and fuel stations across the country. The new directive is “until further notice” as government rolls out safety and regulatory measures to save lives and properties in the wake of the Atomic Junction gas explosion […]

The Ashanti Regional Youth Organizer of the National Democratic Congress, Brogya Genfi says its time to ‘upgrade’ his regional position to the national level of his party. The outspoken NDC member made the pronouncement on Peace FM’s morning show ‘Kokrokoo’ that he is ready to battle for the position which will be keenly contested by the likes of George […]

Outspoken academic Professor Stephen Adei has expressed concerns over the number of vehicles in the Vice President’s convoy during his trips around the country. According to him, the Akufo-Addo government appears to have started well but the size of Mr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s convoy is unhealthy. Speaking at the 20th-anniversary celebrations of Morrison and Associations (an international audit firm), the […]

Liberians are set to go to the polls to choose a successor to Africa’s first elected female president and Nobel Peace laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Ex-football star George Weah and Vice-President Joseph Boakai are the main contenders in the race to succeed her. Liberia, founded by freed US slaves in the 19th Century, has not had a smooth transfer […]

The Northern Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Bugri Naabu was slapped in the chest during a violent encounter with his immediate predecessor on Friday night at the Modern City Hotel in Tamale. The confrontation occurred when Bugri called an emergency meeting involving regional executives and President Nana Akufo- Addo who was in the region on a working visit. […]

As investigations into the cause of Saturday’s huge explosion at Atomic Junction in Accra begins, the President has called for stakeholder support to make new safety policies succeed. A crunch meeting of the relevant government agencies is expected on Thursday, October 12, 2017, to plan the way forward and to prevent a recurrence of the disaster that has […]

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has rubbished the physical projects touted as achievements by the erstwhile John Mahama Administration, saying Ghanaians’ outcry about the awful conditions of their roads everywhere he goes today drops more questions than answers. “I remember during the election that my opponent kept saying that in his time our country had witnessed unprecedented infrastructural […]

President Akuffo-Addo has played up the achievements of his young administration saying those who dwelled so much on “spreading falsehood, scepticism and cynicism” before and after the elections have been embarrassed by his swift accomplishments. The President was speaking at the palace of the Nayiri in the East Mamprusi district capital where he began a three-day working visit to the […]

Former President John Mahama is leading the Observer Mission of ECOWAS to monitor Liberia’s elections which comes off on October 10, 2017. A statement from Mr Mahama’s office Thursday said “Former President John Dramani Mahama is leaving Accra today for Monrovia to lead the Observer Mission of ECOWAS to the October 10, 2017 Liberian general elections. “As former Chair […]

The biometric registration exercise undertaken by the then ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) for its members made the party to believe that it had the numbers to win the 2016 general elections. “The register gave a misleading impression of the party’s true strength in some branches and constituencies, as some of the aspirants registered non-NDC members in their bid […]

Naa Puowele Karbo III, Paramount Chief of the Lawra Traditional Area, has stated that the emphatic victory chalked by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in the 2016 election did not come as a surprise to discerning minds and observers across the country. According to him, “hard work, commitment, tenacity of purpose, and believing in oneself and God, are essential […]

President Akufo-Addo has said he is unable to locate the so-called massive road projects the Mahama administration boasted about in the lead-up to the 2016 elections. According to the president, the NDC administration perhaps misled Ghanaians with their claim of monumental road infrastructure. “I don’t know what infrastructure he has in mind, but clearly roads were not part. We […]